Friday, October 9, 2020

Being at the top of the ladder of life

By comparison, estimates of the data footprint of all books ever written come out to less than 100 terabytes, or 0.005 percent of a mouse brain.

From "An existential crisis in neuroscience" by Grigori Guitchounts
http://nautil.us/issue/81/maps/an-existential-crisis-in-neuroscience
Posted by at 3:04 PM

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